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Sunday, December 28, 2008

GLI Day

So my family and I showed up about ten minutes before puck drop for the first game of yesterday's Great Lakes Invitational, along with about 1000 other people, and we spent a good 20-30 minutes waiting in the ticket line. By the time we got I our tickets, I predicted Michigan would already be up 2-0 and the game would be, for all intents and purposes, over. Check and check.

The second game wasn't much prettier. Michigan State played pretty well by their own low standards, but had they not squandered so many quality chances, they could have easily scored 5 goals. Seeing them in person, it's just amazing the lack of depth they have considering how well-known their school is. That said, Corey Tropp was one very talented player that I thought underperformed, at least statistically in the first half of the year, and if he continues to create offensive--he assisted both MSU goals--they'll be better offensively.

It wasn't a great effort by North Dakota defensively. They've got some nice offensive defensemen, but yesterday, they were more prone to giving up 2-on-1 ones than creating odd-man situations for their team. Offensively, North Dakota moved the puck pretty well, but turned down too many decent shots in favor of a 90 mph backdoor pass that never connected.

Sweet win for Wisconsin in shoot-out Goro gets game, tournament winner!!! All from a senior who Eaves couldn't find a roster spot for for three years. Way to go former Mr. hockey, scorers score, and you have that winning touch.

Did Wisconsin play in the GLI? Oh, nevermind...it's just the neighborhood troll who has to take pot shots at UW/Eaves in EVERY thread. I think internet stalker laws strengthen on 1/1. Careful about your obsession with Eaves.

Yes, how dare you criticize St. Mike the over-recruiter, the face-slapper, the trimmer of dead-wood. Obviously Gorowsky was awful until this season. Any paint thinner drinking sconnie fan can tell you the real story.

An Angel appeared and said unto Tom Gorowsky after winning Mr. Hockey, the Lord has sent me to test you. Your Hockey skills will be taken away until the Summer of your Senior year. Then you must place the blade of a broken stick underneath your pillow and all that was taken away shall be returned. It was as Barry the redeemer and Eaves the infallible had revealed it would be. And lo 14,000 drunken Badger fans cheered as a player in red touched the puck in the neutral zone. It was all good. At least as good as it can be in the land of the cheeseheads. Everything was as it should be, paint thinner Kool-Aid for everybody.

So please do not even think about asking whether Gorowsky might have deserved more playing time on the past two aggressively mediocre Badger teams. That sir, would be blasphemy.